Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th Year Dr. Barbara Creed. At least three Cinema Studies subjects at second or third year level. Second semester A 2 hour seminar and a 2 hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• understand the history and theory of the spectator in contemporary film studies;
• understand the concept of the 'body as image' as well as the different modes of bodily representation constructed for the viewer: the classical and abject body; male and female body; grotesque body; erotic body; racial body; transgendered body; and cyberbody.
• appreciate the different forms of the institutionalised cinematic body (avant-garde, independent, popular, pornographic, art house) and the way in which images of the physical body change in relation to the institution in which they are being represented.

A study of the theories of spectatorship with reference to the writings of Metz, Mulvey, Deleuze, Studlar and De Lauretis and of the cinematic body in the twin contexts of institution and image. There will be specific emphasis on representations of the body, as a framework for analysing spectatorship, with reference to the writings of Freud, Kristeva, Foucault, Laqueur and Gilman. Other topics will include: the body and spectator in art and photography, modes of representation, image and ideology Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take home examinations totalling 6,000 words. Mayne Judith Cinema and Spectatorship Routledge London 1993 Tasker Yvonne Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema, Routledge London 1993 Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th Year Dr. Barbara Creed. At least three Cinema Studies subjects at second or third year level. A 2 hour seminar and a 2 hour screening per week. Students completing this subject should:

• Understand the history and theory of the spectator in contemporary film studies.
• Understand the concept of the 'body as image' as well as the different modes of bodily representation constructed for the viewer: the classical and abject body; male and female body; grotesque body; erotic body; racial body; transgendered body; and cyberbody.
• Appreciate the different forms of the institutionalised cinematic body (avant-garde, independent, popular, pornographic, art house) and the way in which images of the physical body change in relation to the institution in which they are being represented.

A study of the theories of spectatorship with reference to the writings of Metz, Mulvey, Deleuze, Studlar and De Lauretis and of the cinematic body in the twin contexts of institution and image. There will be specific emphasis on representations of the body, as a framework for analysing spectatorship, with reference to the writings of Freud, Kristeva, Foucault, Laqueur and Gilman. Other topics will include: the body and spectator in art and photography, modes of representation, image and ideology Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take home examinations totalling 6,000 words. Mayne Judith Cinema and Spectatorship Routledge London 1993 Tasker Yvonne Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema Routledge London 1993